Car-door seal.



W. REIGHERT GAR DOOR SEAL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 2, 190a.

Patented Jan. 11,1910.

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CAR-DOOR SEAL.

Application filed December 2, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. WALTER RElCHElFI, a citizen of the United States,residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, haveinvented a certain new and useful Car-Door Seal, of which the followingis a specification.

The objectof my invention is to provide a car door seal of simple,durable and inexpensive construction, that may be formed complete of asingle piece of sheet metal, and then may be readily, quickly and easilyapplied to the door of a car, or any other place where a seal of thisclass is desirable, said seal being capable of being attached withoutthe use of any tools whatever, and when once attached, will be securelyheld against removal until the seal is broken.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combinationof the various parts of the device, whereby the objects cor:- templatedare attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in myclaim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. in which- Figure 1shows a plan view of a sheet metal blank from which the seal embony ingmy invention is formed. Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of same. Fig. 3shows a plan view of a seal embodying my invention, and shown in itsclosed or sealed position. Fig. 4 shows a side view of same. Fig. showsan enlarged detail sectional view taken on the line 55 of Fig. 3, andFig. (3 shows an enlarged detail sectional view on the line 66 of Fig.3.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the blank from which the seal ismade comprises a rectangular body portion. which when folded forms thepocket in nhich the free end of the seal is inserted. To facilitate thedescription, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate one partof the body portion having therein an opening 11, the material at oneend of the opening being inclined at 12, as clearly shown in Fig. 5.Adjacent to the part 10 is a part 13, of substantially the same width asthe part 10, the division line between these parts in Fig. 1 of thedrawings, being shown by dotted lines, and adjacent to the part 13 isanother part 1d. The pocket is formed by first bending the part 13 overthe part 10, then bending the part 14 under the part 10, and finallySpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1910.

Serial No. 465,891.

bending the margin 15 over the part 13, and

also bending the end margin 16 over the part 13, as shown in Fig. 3.These marginal edges are preferably crimped or corrugated, as shown inFig. 3, so that if tiey should be tampered with, and the pocket opened,by means of a knife or wedge, the crimped edges would show that the samehad been tampered with.

Formed integral with the part 10 is a long flat strip 1.7 having anintegral tongue 18 formed in its outer end. Assuming that the parts ofthe pocket are bent to the positions shown in Fig. 5, then the operatorpasses the part 17 through the device to which the seal is to beapplied, and inserts the end containing the tongue 17 in the adjacentend of the pocket, whereupon the end Will strike on the inclined portion12 and will pass up through the opening 11, and when drawn out, thetongue 18 will engage the part 10 adjacent to the opening 11, as clearlyshown in Fig. 5 thereby elfectively preventing the withdrawal of thetongue, and forming a seal that cannot be opened without breaking thetongue or the part 17. This entire operation may obviously be donewithout any tools of any kind whatever.

By the arrangement and construction above described, I have provided acar door seal in which the parts 10, 13 and 14 may all lie flatsubstantially parallel ith each other with just space enough between theparts 13 and 14. and the part 10 to admit the outer end of the metalstrip and the tongue 18 thereof. By having the inclined guide device 12,the end of the strip may be inserted between the parts 10 and 14 and,when back far enough in the pocket, it will be deflected upwardlythrough the opening 11. when the outer end of the strip is drawnoutwardly from the pocket, the tongue 18 will engage the adjacentportion of the part 10 on the side opposite from the end of the strip towhich the tongue is connected, as clearly shown in Fig. 5, to therebyprevent the withdrawal of the outer end of the strip. This feature is ofimportance when it is understood that seals of this kind are usuallymade of soft, flexible metal that has almost no resiliency, and, hence,some means must be provided for causing the tongue 18 to be raised toposition for entering between the parts 10 and 13 when drawn outwardlyfrom Then,

the pocket, otherwise, the tongue might not have sufficient resiliencyto spring up and engage the top portion of the part 10.

I claim as my invention:

An improved car door seal, formed of a single piece of sheet metalcomprising a narrow strip and a body portion at one end thereof, saidbody portion being formed with the part that is in line with the striphaving an opening therein, and an inclined portion adjacent to theopening and extending from one end of the opening downw ardly and towardthe narrow strip, said body portion also being provided with a partoverlapping the part containing the opening, and another part extendingunder the part containing the opening, the said part that eX- tendsunder the part containing the opening being arranged in contact withsaid inclined portion, and the part that extends over the part thatcontains the opening being slightly spaced apart from the partcontaining the opening, and the end of said strip opposite from the bodyportion being provided with an integral tongue, said parts being soarranged that when the end of the strip containing the tongue isinserted under the body portion that contains the opening, said inclinedguide portion will cause the end of the strip containing the tongue topass upwardly through the opening in said body portion to thereby forcethe tongue to position above the part containing the opening.

Des Moines, Iowa, October 23, 1908.

WALTER REICHERT. Witnesses RALPH ORWIG, MILDRED B. GOLDIZEN.

